The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Japanese movie "Be With You" served as inspiration for "Love Box. " I couldn't fill up the album with just my experiences.
In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.
It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.
A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life. ' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.
I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like when things like music come out and you're listening to a song and you have experiences with art or phenomena that supersede your simple relationship with them as just a piece of art. They're more than that. That's just what those quote are for me. They're big, they're important.
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.
The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.
Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.
Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.
Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.